your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Mar 6

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i just reckoned i have been online for 42 years. started using the internet at the University of Puerto Rico. compared to my friends, twas living in the future using Gopher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29

my digital footprint is older than most Millennials and Zoomers.

which protocol did you first use to pop your internet cherry?

#getOffMyLawn

Gopher (protocol) - Wikipedia

Show threadMumonkanMar 7

@blogdiva there has been mention of bbses here -- started in on those in 1983-4, so i guess if we are counting that, it would be ~43 years. 😭

but what i would truly count as internet would have been around 1986-7 when i was using mts(!) and usenet, etc. i think i still have some email around from 1988 approx when i got onto proper un*x system.

Show threadclewMar 7

I like that as a sub-question:

What’s the oldest email or post you still have privately? The oldest that can still be found on the searchable internet?

@Mumonkan @blogdiva

Show threadBlake C. StaceyMar 7
@clew @Mumonkan @blogdiva I have QBasic programs I wrote in the '90s, but the oldest email I still have saved is probably from 2001, exported from my MIT account.
Show threadclewMar 7

playoff round question: what's the oldest program you wrote that you can still run?

finals: what's the oldest program you wrote that OTHER PEOPLE still run?

@bstacey @Mumonkan @blogdiva

Show threadBlake C. Stacey

@clew @Mumonkan @blogdiva With no modification, no emulator, etc... I came up with some LaTeX configuration code ~18 years ago that I still use as a default for some projects, and it's been handed off to other people since.

I have plain TeX that's years older than that, and it *would* produce a document without modification, but neither I nor anyone else has had a reason to touch it.

Among other things, I wrote my assignments for my poetry-workshop elective in TeX. There is no need to revisit poetry from college.

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